Category: CRE Trends
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How to Improve Your Remote Space Management
Do you want to manage your space more efficiently – even when working remotely? Managing your space can be a challenge when you’re in your building every day. Now that many teams are working remotely, it can seem almost impossible to manage your space efficiently. But, managing your space well is crucial to maximizing RSF…
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How to Use Space Management to Keep Your Team Productive While Working Remotely
Does your team work together just as well remotely as they do in person? Due to COVID-19, working remotely is the new reality for many property teams. Because of widespread work from home practices, it’s more important than ever to find a way to keep your team productive remotely. However, when you and your team…
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4 Ways Your RFP Process Can Help You Reduce Operating Costs
Is getting competitive bids from vendors tedious and time-consuming – to the point where it hardly seems worthwhile? Sending out RFPs can be a manual and time-intensive process. After putting in the work to write your request, choose vendors to send it to, and sort through the responses, you’re not even guaranteed to find the…
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Preventive Maintenance Software Benefits for Property Management Professionals
Do you use preventive maintenance software to stay on top of maintenance around your property? Preventive maintenance can help extend the life of building assets by up to 10x. But, that’s only true if maintenance is conducted consistently and thoroughly. If you only maintain equipment occasionally, it’s going to break down faster – increasing your…
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How Does Improving NOI Impact My Building?
Does your building generate maximum revenue with minimized expenses for a high NOI? To maximize building profitability, it’s essential to have a high NOI. That way, you generate as much revenue from your building as possible. All while keeping your expenses down and encouraging team productivity. But, improving NOI doesn’t just make your building more…
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Top 3 Things that a Building Operations Platform Should Provide
Do you manage your building operations through one modern platform? Or, do you have many different solutions to run your building that never quite work? As real estate becomes more digitalized, using technology is increasingly important to keep up with competitors and attract tenants. But, it’s essential to choose the right technology for your building.…
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A Message to Building Engines Customers from Our CEO
We are in extraordinary times. The country and the world have paused, and you, as CRE professionals, have been critical to answering the call for the working world–your occupants—to take all necessary protective precautions. Both personally and professionally, we know that you are dealing with a lot. As concerns about the coronavirus (COVID-19) continue to…
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We Answer 5 Questions You Probably Have About AI in CRE
If you ask a trade publication, they report “the AI/ tech revolution is coming.” If you ask one of the Big Four, they predict Artificial Intelligence will contribute up to $15.7T to the global economy by 2030. But, as Commercial Real Estate professionals, you’re likely wondering how this well-hyped technology will affect your world, make…
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Building Engines’ Partner, Genea, Focused on Delivering Value to the CRE Industry
A quick scan of the commercial real estate publications and CRETech news sources from the past week show a clear focus on pending IPO’s (hello, We Co.,), co-everything, unicorns (VTS), consolidations and the impressive new fund raised by Building Engines investor, Camber Creek. Occasionally lost in the CRETech news hype cycle, is the great work done and real value delivered by…
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What Can Chatbots do for CRE?
chat•bot Noun: a technology program designed to participate in conversations with human users. Chatbots have been around for long enough now that you’ve probably interacted with one. In fact, you’ve probably even been frustrated by one! I remember when my favorite airline first implemented a voice-activated bot on its customer service line. It was annoying!…



